Animal Collective (music group)

The world is a disaster, we're all getting older, and a higher power may not be there to save us. So let's get a groove on.

Welcome to the universe of Belle and Sebastian's ninth studio album, "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance," out Jan. 20, which sees the orchestral pop band reawakening its inner disco soul and taking its character sketches out for a worldly spin.

"Back in the day," says singer-songwriter Stuart Murdoch, "I lived in a much smaller world. Those first couple [of] records were almost just exploring my city. Geographically, they existed in a city."

That city would be Glasgow. Formed there about two decades ago, Belle and...

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